Intellectual Property And Competition Law: Exploring Relevance Of Some Conflicting Issues In Indian Perspective

The relationship between Intellectual property protection and fair Competition present difficult challenges to policy maker. The Competition and Intellectual property laws are the two different bodies of law having their independent and different area of operation as Intellectual property rights deal with grant of rights by the State whereas Competition law deals with use of those rights. The conflict between the two arises in the methods they embrace that were designed to achieve reciprocal goals. The purpose of this book is to examine number of conflicting issues closely related to the Interface between Intellectual property rights and Competition law. The book includes sufficient number of case studies related to interface of both the laws. Separate Chapters analyse the issue of technology transfer in online market especially SEP and FRAND licensing. The economic analysis of interface between IPR and Competition Law has also been dealt in separate chapter.